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Devil May Cry 4 |OT| of daring to defy your savior
- Thread starter Dahbomb
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I am going to be a little late on getting this game, /money dont get paid till this Friday but hell I will be getting it. PStriple on this game forsure from what I have hears I am going to be pleased since I love DMC3 hell I even loved the difficulty from it! 
Zombie James
Banned
So i'm on mission 7 and... hmm, yea, I'm starting to find things are getting pretty repetitive.
C- Warrior
Banned
I3rand0 said:
You know that area in Mission 2 with the red orb glob that you smack at -- it's a red orb bank, further past that -- by the dumbster is a tower -- at the very top of the tower, there are two ledges. The lower one has hidden red orbs, and the one above that does as well.
that'll help you get an S for red orb count on M2.
Zombie James
Banned
Zzoram said:
The forest, yea. I don't know, we'll see.
C- Warrior
Banned
Dahbomb said:
Do you intercept Credo's lance throw with buster, or with a sword slash? I can't tell...
C- Warrior
Banned
_leech_ said:
The reason for that is because there's been a good few hours without a boss fight.
The next 4 missions has 4 bosses which are all fun and intense.
After playing through the game two tiems now I tried the "Automatic mode" just for fun. My god this sucks, you can petty much get an S-SSS ranking in every fight it's just way too easy. Now here is my question how do we know the top ranked players didn't play in automatic? Or are they not included, because thatÄs seriously just like cheating.
Valkyr Junkie
Member
Xater said:
Doesn't 'automatic' just automatically hold R1 for you?
Valkyr Junkie
Member
Xater said:
Wow. In that case I'm sure you probably can't enable it on the higher difficulties. I thought it was originally mentioned as a Human mode only option, but I noticed that DH will let you use it also. It might also give you a huge mission complete penalty.
MiamiWesker
Member
There is no PS3 gaf leaderboard? Cause I would love to compare with some of the better guys here. I am in the 200's in some of the missions worldwide.
MiamiWesker said:
I would like one too. I suggested something to Dahbomb but he kinda shrugged it off. I'd play the game more if I wasn't so sick
Xater said:
You can't achieve crazy scores like that with Automatic...Its like playing an FPS with auto-aim and not getting as many headshots. Same shit, different game.
Valkyr Junkie said:
Automatic is available for every difficulty. With Automatic, some of the missions/boss fights are just not right since you don't want to do more than you wanted, e.g. mission 11, 20.
With automatic, it might pro-long your fight than follow the actions that you wanted.
Well, I can at least notice that the player who made that insane playthrough of mission 2 didn't use Automatic. For several reasons:Xater said:
-You lose a lot of control over what combos are done. You can try to "override" the game's choices by doing a specific combo (which involves holding the analog stick in a direction), but normal ground attack combos is something you don't have control over. His strings of combos seemed like he had planned beforehand and I doubt they'd work if Nero randomly did combos the player didn't plan to do.
-His insta-rev was INSANELY good. While playing as automatic, perhaps 30% of the attacks gets insta-rev and even less are perfect insta-revs. So all of those insta-revs were his own, and if Automatic was on it would probably put him off the timing as the game would do combos he wasn't planning for.
-He charged the pistol while attacking. While in Automatic the pistols are only charged automatically when you're idle.
I also encountered a bug today. As I played thorugh Mission 3 and encountered the ice demons for the first time they actually shoved me down where the boss from the next mission would be. At first I thought "Sweet maybe I can use this to my advantage!" but I could not. I wasn't able to get back because of the barrier and I could not continue on because all the rooms were empty. :lol
I'll post my observations about Automatic again since there seems to be a bit confusion about it and I've noticed a few new things:
When playing as Nero:
-Pistol will be automatically charged up when standing idle or running around
-Clicking once with a pistol means 3 shots
-Melee attacks will be automatically turned into different combos (including launches and juggles)
-Devil bringer will snatch or grab depending on range
-The exceed gauge will automatically insta-rev randomly as you do attacks (works about 30% of the time, few of those being perfect insta-revs)
When playing as Dante:
-Ranged weapon will automatically charge when standing idle or running around
-Clicking once with the pistols means multiple shots.
-Melee attacks will automatically turn into different combos
-Pandora will automatically change into a form REALLY quick (faster than what a human player will be able to do)
The 2 unfair advantages with Automatic is definitely that you can easily charge ranged weapons and quickly use the Pandora (although you have no control over which form is used). Besides that it basically turns a bad player into an average one and might help people get a higher rank on missions. But really good players will play worse with Automatic because they lose too much control. I personally wish there were a score penalty when using Automatic but besides that I don't think it's a stupid addition. Just an extra thing bad players can rely on if they can't play the game properly.
Edit: And most importantly, I'm glad it's *optional*. If this was like Assassin's Creed then Automatic would be forced and there would be no other difficulties than Human Mode. I'm really glad that Capcom decided to leave these options up to the player.
When playing as Nero:
-Pistol will be automatically charged up when standing idle or running around
-Clicking once with a pistol means 3 shots
-Melee attacks will be automatically turned into different combos (including launches and juggles)
-Devil bringer will snatch or grab depending on range
-The exceed gauge will automatically insta-rev randomly as you do attacks (works about 30% of the time, few of those being perfect insta-revs)
When playing as Dante:
-Ranged weapon will automatically charge when standing idle or running around
-Clicking once with the pistols means multiple shots.
-Melee attacks will automatically turn into different combos
-Pandora will automatically change into a form REALLY quick (faster than what a human player will be able to do)
The 2 unfair advantages with Automatic is definitely that you can easily charge ranged weapons and quickly use the Pandora (although you have no control over which form is used). Besides that it basically turns a bad player into an average one and might help people get a higher rank on missions. But really good players will play worse with Automatic because they lose too much control. I personally wish there were a score penalty when using Automatic but besides that I don't think it's a stupid addition. Just an extra thing bad players can rely on if they can't play the game properly.
Edit: And most importantly, I'm glad it's *optional*. If this was like Assassin's Creed then Automatic would be forced and there would be no other difficulties than Human Mode. I'm really glad that Capcom decided to leave these options up to the player.
After watching some of these advanced vids, I fuckin HATE that orbs are connected to the ranking system. Wouldnt be so bad if most of the orbs were in fun or logical places, but many require bullshit platforming or force you to attack invisible shit for them to appear. Great fighter that can insta rev every strike while charging your gun? Too bad! Gotta go through extra crap to get good ranks
C- Warrior
Banned
Sectus said:
Assassin's Creed has an automatic-esque easy mode?
C- Warrior
Banned
DSN2K said:Im in love with Nero devil trigger, crazy shit he does when he grabs foes,
You can.
Question -- does the game ever actually tell players what automatic does?
Tutorial on or off.
Surprisingly, I haven't noticed message boards flooded with questions like "what does auto do" - thinking that the game makes a point somewhere in the tutorial screen barage during mission 2 as to what it does.